(Sunlight Foundation) The Office of Refugee Resettlement removed its staff directory from its website, likely between October and December of last year. The change came just before the political firestorm over the Trump administration’s family separation ...
Activists from the animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) marched and protested at Petaluma Farms in Sonoma County, California for the second time in recent months after receiving “horrifying footage of birds rotting to ...
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) just released a report that found glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup, in all but two of the 45 conventional breakfast cereals, snack bars, and granola brands it ...
In a lawsuit filed last week, a 76-year-old legally deaf and disabled women alleges officers violently arrested, kneed and handcuffed her to the point of passing out, all for jaywalking. The incident took place in July ...
(Beyond Pesticides) A federal judge in Brazil has ordered the suspension of the most widely used pesticide in the world, glyphosate. Under the ruling, new products may not be registered in the country until the ...
Popular animated kids’ TV show “Steven Universe” made history when it depicted a same-sex wedding last month. Show creator, Rebecca Sugar, recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly (EW) to reflect on the significance and challenge of ...
An 11-year-old kid from Texas, Emmett Brewer, successfully hacked a mock Florida election website within 10 minutes. Brewer achieved the feat and also switched election results during the annual hacker conference DefCon. The boy successfully ...
All Florida public schools are now required to exhibit the state motto phrase “In God We Trust” in a visible space, in accordance with a measure passed by Florida Governor Rick Scott. In March, Scott ...
After a six-year environmental review process and against the wishes of many local native tribes and residents, the federal government gave the go-ahead on the development of a new gold mine in Alaska, in what ...
Evolution Of Blockchain The Geon Network works similar to existing cryptocurrencies on the blockchain, allowing users to transfer value between one another using secure protocols. However, Geon is unique in that recipients provide proof-of-location, and ...
“Anyone who does care about news needs to understand Facebook as a fundamental threat.” (Common Dreams) During a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers that refusal ...
District court judge sued by six residents he’s sent to jail on the grounds that they weren’t paying off their debts. Six Arkansas residents have sued Judge Mark Derrick for jailing them due to inability ...
Former Columbian president declared recognition of Palestine as a sovereign state, but will the declaration hold under the new administration? Last Wednesday, Colombia’s outgoing President Juan Manuel Santos announced that the Columbian government would recognize ...
After a 15-hour debate last Thursday, the Argentine Senate voted to reject a draft bill that would have legalized abortion within the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. 38 Senate members rejected the bill, 31 supported ...
Speculation has soared on who should take over the role of famed British spy character James Bond, with fans ardently declaring that Idris Elba should be next—but his race is causing a stir with movie ...
A new report from United Nations Environment details how pharmaceutical drugs enter the environment and our public water supplies through waste treatment centers. Not only are humans at risk of contamination from pharmaceutical chemicals seeping ...
At issue is the fact that the lack of legal abortion led to clandestine abortions, which has led to the deaths of over three thousand women in the past twenty-five years (this number is a ...
(Beyond Pesticides) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must ban a widely used organophosphate pesticide linked to brain damage in children, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. The appellate court ordered EPA to finalize its ...
Part I: A Declaration of Independence We are the children of liberty. We are the descendants of the Sons of Liberty, who, in the colonial era of this country, took it upon themselves to revolt ...
About 3,400 prison inmates trained in firefighting situations are currently deployed to put out the ongoing, raging California wildfires, but they are paid just $2 per day. They get an additional $1 per hour when ...
Don’t tell me this economy sucks. Sure, it’s far from perfect, but look at the statistics, look at Americans getting back to work, look at manufacturing returning to our shores, and tell me that we ...
A Georgia candidate for the House of Representatives ranted about his hatred for the county he is running to represent when he was arrested for drunk driving, and now it could sink his campaign. Police ...
Pop superstar and business mogul Kanye West made his way back to the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” stage on Thursday, and he did not hide from questions about his support for President Donald Trump. Kimmel started ...
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the orchestrator behind the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, earning him labels like “terrorist” and “murderer,” but does he also fit the label of being a federal informant? Boston journalist Michele McPhee claimed ...
Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American, has become the first Muslim woman to win the Congressional Election in Michigan. Rashida Tlaib narrowly beat Brenda Jones, Detroit’s City Council President, at a Democratic primary election for Michigan’s 13th ...
Activists immediately denounced the measure, which “also recommits the party to an ‘all of the above’ energy stance.” (Common Dreams) Just two months after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was celebrated by environmentalists for banning donations from ...
A Seattle Sea-Tac International Airport employee, identified as a mechanic, flying a stolen Alaska Airlines jet has crashed the plane shortly after it took off on Friday night. A U.S. Air Force fighter jet intercepted ...
The first of what could become an avalanche of crippling blows against Monsanto came on Friday when a California jury ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages to a man who said the ...
The Trump administration has approved the use of toxic pesticides and genetically modified organisms (GMO) on national wildlife refuges. This is a reversal of an earlier ban placed on neonicotinoid pesticides and genetically engineered crops ...
In a rare move, national politicians and activists are getting involved in a local school board race, they say, to make kids safer at school. But this is not just any school district. It is ...
There is only so much time in a day, and only so many resources that news services can devote to the coverage of the pressing matters of the world. Still, the relative sparsity of mainstream ...
(OpenSecrets) Foreign lobbyists and agents acting on behalf of foreign interests have reported hundreds of millions of dollars in payments since January 2017, an analysis of OpenSecrets’ exclusive new Foreign Lobby Watch data reveals. Today we’re making ...
(AntiWar) Saudi warplanes attacked a school bus in northern Yemen on Thursday, hitting the bus just as it was passing through a crowded marketplace. At least 50 civilians were killed in the attack, mostly schoolchildren, and ...
Sanctions bill introduced in attempts to “protect U.S. democracy” from the Kremlin. U.S. lawmakers have introduced a “sanctions bill from hell” to keep Russian President Vladimir Putin along with other Russia oligarchs in their place. ...
The jury deliberation of the Johnson vs. Monsanto case began this week after closing arguments debating the tie between Roundup herbicide and Non-Hodgkins lymphoma were voiced Tuesday. The verdict of this high-profile case in the ...
A conspiracy theorist was banned from several social media outlets–is this a cause for concern for Americans’ right to free speech? Last Thursday, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars news network were banned from ...
The development of artificial intelligence technologies may prove as a promising replacement for live animals in laboratory drug testing. A new study published in the scientific journal Toxicological Sciences states that predictive drug tests on ...
Martin Griffiths, the United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, is planning to invite Yemen’s conflicting parties to Geneva on September 6 in hopes of a peace negotiation. A Strive for Peace During the U.N. Security ...
Activists of the Occupy movement push Philadelphia mayor to end Preliminary Arrest Reporting Service Agreement with ICE; protesters seek to tackle the stop-and-frisk program next. The occupation of City Hall since protesters moved the encampment ...
“Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian – a vision that brings out the unity of the ...
Humanity’s overconsumption of earth’s resources brings up fears that future generation’s will suffer from a lack of natural resources. To help raise awareness of human consumption environmentalists began holding an annual event called Earth Overshoot ...
A Mexican journalist and his son risk deportation due to his criticism of the U.S. government’s immigration policy. Mexican journalist, Emilio Gutierrez-Soto, and his son, Oscar, are currently facing serious ordeals at the hands of ...
There are 18 active wildfires in California right now. A layer of haze and smoke has engulfed much of Northern California. The Carr Fire in Redding over the last week has already claimed two firefighters ...
A confidential report released by the United Nations (UN) stated that North Korea is continuing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, in violation of an international sanction but others disagree. The 149-page report obtained by ...
On Saturday, a drone exploded near a military event in the capital Caracas when Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was delivering his speech. The leader and some of the senior officials survived the attack but who ...
The Wave Of Roses is a Citizens Truth series which highlights progressive candidates and organizations which challenge corporate Third Way control of the Democratic Party. This entry looks at key United States House of Representatives ...
In a move underscoring one of today’s most contentious debates Facebook, YouTube, Spotify and iTunes all removed various types of content from controversial political talk show host, Alex Jones and his Infowars website. The removal ...
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